tiles are not transparent?

[Loron]

hi. i bought rpg maker xp via steam because it was on sale.
first of all: im totally a beginner with this kind of stuff. so i dont know if my following problem is a bug... or if i have to set it up somehow.

here is my problem: i open rpg maker xp and when i start new project, the screen is filled with green gras. thats probably the beginning screen. so... now i mark with left mouse click the tiles i want to place (for example a big tree) so i mark every tree tile and place a big tree. but the problem is: the background of the tree is white. so... the green grass around the tree is overwirtten by a white, scare background. what i mean is... its no transparent. i want the tree to be placed on the green gras ground.

do i have to set up something? my transparent colour is standard. i didnt change any settings, i started the software the first time just some min ago.

and when i test the game, ingame the background colour of the tree is black.

how to fix this problem?

 

[Loron]

well nevermind... the problem is solved. i feel dumb. i just noticed that there is a "3-layer-system"

 

[mlogan]

Yeah, it threw me off too, especially after having used VX/Ace. But the three layer system is nice once you’ve gotten used to it.

 

[Shaz]

The background of your trees should not be white. It should be transparent. When you place it on the correct layer (not the grass layer), the grass should still be visible behind it.

 

[Loron]

Yeah, it threw me off too, especially after having used VX/Ace. But the three layer system is nice once you’ve gotten used to it.

yup, thats it. i tested trial versions of newer rpg makers, and there was no 3 layer system. thats why i was confused too

 

[mlogan]

@Shaz It's because he tried to put the tree on the ground layer. When you do that, yes it shows with a white background. If you move to the second layer, it does not.

Spoiler

It's not that the tree has a white background, but that the transparent baclground of tree overwrites the ground layer. And in XP, it shows as a white layer when there is no ground layer.